Best of luck with your Savus, bcr229!
Gary's name rings a bell. I feel like I've heard of him through arboreal/GTP talk? Nice to know he's working with Savus as well. Thanks for the recommendation!
Candoia-wise: The lizard-based diet of Candoia is what gives me the most pause with them. It's something that's a little bit more in reach now that Reptilinks are a thing (and I've personally had some early success with them), but there's no guarantee they'll be around forever. Frog and fowl could potentially provide similarly lean alternative prey. Rodents would make a nice energy-rich treat for a Candoia every once in a while, but I wouldn't offer them too often. I think the hobby's wizening up to the consequences of more or less forcing rodent-based diets on snakes that weren't designed to handle them.
Not surprised the baby Solomon Island boa issue is a thing, Caitlin. I've seen a lot of adverts from importers and wholesalers for Solomon Island boas and the (cheap) neonates gravid females have dropped in the last few months. The outcome is disappointing, but not surprising. I feel like I'm approaching the point in my herp keeping experience that I'd be ready to take one of those little babies on (given some of those micro Reptilinks and a keeper friend willing to part with some feeder geckos in an emergency), but I'm not ready to run out an buy another snake at the moment. (And I should make a yes/no decision on that rehome Lampropeltis first)
If anyone's interested in viper boas, Vin Russo's actually had good luck with them. He's got CBB babies at this point that he's line-breeding for red. Pretty sure he has Solomon Island boas as well, though I'm not sure if he's breeding those right now.
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